Transcript
Introduction
Patrick
This week's conversation is about artificial intelligence and interplanetary travel. It's about content creation, thinking from first principles and death progress units. It's about brain machine interfaces and why it is crucial that you be a chef and not a cook. My guest is Tim Urban along with his business partner, Andrew Finn. Tim is the most entertaining writer I've come across in years who explains complicated and interesting topics to his millions of dedicated readers on the website, Wait But Why.
As an example, Tim's last post on Elon Musk's Neuralink venture is 40,000 words long, roughly the length of a short book. It explains almost all of human progress and our potential future using drawings and cartoons. It's impossible to stop reading. Well, this conversation is wildly entertaining. It is also chock-full of metaphors and lessons that will be useful to anyone doing creative work or building a company. I hope this leaves you as energized as it left me.